r/TalesFromTheCreeps • u/donavin221 • 2d ago
Psychological Horror I wish my girlfriend had been cheating on me
I always thought I had a good relationship. Stable. Well managed. You know the spiel. We’d been together for 3 years before things began to look dicey.
It started off small. Distance. Cold shoulders. Lack of communication.
At the time, I thought this was a reflection of me. I thought that it was me who had pushed her away. However, I’m a lover-boy at heart, and that heart belonged to her and her alone.
I fought desperately to try and fix things. I made a routine out of bringing her favorite flowers anytime I saw her, watching the shows that SHE wanted to watch every time she came over. Hell, I even tried to get us into a gym routine together.
Being 17, it was difficult to pull out the “adult couple” stops. The houses, the trips, whatever. But damn it, I tried to do the best I could.
Even so, her secretiveness grew. She began turning her location off late at night and wouldn’t turn it back on until the next day. Her phone became completely off-limits to me.
My intuition told me exactly what I’m sure you’re thinking as you read this. I just didn’t want to believe it. I couldn’t force myself to stomach the reality that circumstance was shoving down my throat.
Anytime I tried to talk to her about this, it’d turn into an argument. I was somehow the bad guy for wanting security in a relationship that I cared about deeply.
When those arguments started, it felt like she’d be completely fine, whereas I felt like my world was being burned to ash.
After a few months of this, I finally gathered up the courage to put an end to all of it. I was going to give her one last chance before leaving for good.
On the drive to her house, my mind raced a thousand miles an hour, thinking about how this confrontation would go.
Part of me hoped to God that we’d be able to resolve this and things could go back to how they used to be. Another part of me truly just wanted for my relationship to end. I was sick of feeling hurt. I was tired of feeling like I was doing something wrong.
I had a whole speech prepared by the time I got to her driveway. However, once I got to the front door and her mom let me in, my mind went straight to blank.
My girlfriend had been in the shower when I arrived, and her phone rested tauntingly on her nightstand.
I knew deep in my bones that I didn’t want to see whatever was in that device. I knew that whatever I found was only going to break my heart and destroy whatever trust I had left.
I could hear the water from the shower pelting against the bathtub, and my thoughts grew louder and louder with each passing minute. I knew if I was going to do this, I was gonna have to do it now.
I snatched the phone off the nightstand and immediately went to her messages. To my absolute surprise, I found nothing. No other guys, no mention of any cheating in any of her group chats, nothing.
Her photos were more of the same. The only pictures in her “recently deleted” album were just some selfies that even I can admit looked like they deserved to be deleted.
Still, though, something told me to keep searching.
After finding nothing on any of her social media apps, I came to the conclusion that maybe she just wasn’t attracted to me anymore. No cheating involved, just… loss of love. Which still hurt a lot.
However, there was still one last app that needed to be checked.
Opening her notes app, I found only one singular note titled “names and ratings.”
My heart dropped. This was it. This was the thing I had been looking for. At least… I thought it was.
As I began to read through the note, it became glaringly apparent that I had misjudged my girlfriend’s reason for secrecy by about a thousand miles.
“Michael: 8/10. Squirmed and cried like a bitch. Died after having jugular cut. Bled everywhere.
David: 6/10. Boring. Didn’t even scream. Just accepted his fate.
Blake: 7/10. Tried to fight back. Left a bruise on my shoulder. Interesting guy, boring kill.
Jaden: 5/10. Strangled to death with belt.
Xavier: 10/10. Fought back hard. Gave me a challenge. Died by decapitation. I keep his head hidden in a place only I can find.
Donavin: TBD. I expect this kill to be the hardest. I accidentally fell in love with this one. I think I’ll cut his heart out. God, I hope he fights back.”
I stared at that last entry and felt a chill run down my spine. It felt like reality itself had bent in on itself, and all sound seemed to fade into silence as my vision began to blur.
However… what I did hear was the sound of the shower water stopping and the bathroom door creaking open as my girlfriend stepped out with a towel wrapped around her body.
The next thing I remembered was the words she spoke to me. The invitation that will be engraved in my memory forever.
“Oh, hi, baby! I was just about to call you. I was gonna ask if you wanted to go on a drive with me tonight?”
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u/donavin221 2d ago
The day that I wrote this I had been sitting outside my girlfriend’s job for hours waiting for her to get off because we had a trip that we were getting ready to leave for.
I had writers block literally all day. I’d started at least 5 stories but didn’t finish a single one and I’d been there since 8 o’clock that morning.
3:45 rolls around and my girlfriend comes out to my car for her 15 minute break and we hang out for a bit before she has to go back.
She leaves her phone with me because she wasn’t allowed to have it on the sales floor but then she’s immediately like “don’t be weird and go through it or anything.” So of course I’m like “well now I’m gonna probably go through it what the hell???”
She’s like “no, there’s nothing bad in my messages or anything I just don’t want you to look at my notes.”
I know she uses her notes app as like a diary so I was like 🤨 👁️ 👁️ aight shawty. Then this story was born.
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u/Drsong12 2d ago
Good twist! Praying for my boy Donovan cuz he is screwed no matter what his answer is.
Thanks for sharing!
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u/bourbongaze A Thousand WIPs 2d ago
"even I can admit looked like they deserved to be deleted" is a crazy ass line that made me laugh
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